Vertica Systems earns Red Herring 100 Award for fueling business agility
with revolutionary analytic database technology

Vertica included among the 100 "most promising" companies driving the future of technology

ANDOVER, Mass., May 20, 2008 - Red Herring announced that Vertica Systems is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 North America award, given annually to the top 100 private technology companies in North America.

Vertica is the only analytic database purpose-built to handle today's business intelligence data management workloads. The innovative architecture of the shared-nothing, grid-based, column-oriented Vertica Analytic Database enables companies to analyze many terabytes of data 50x-200x faster than other solutions, while running on low-cost, highly scalable "green grids" of industry-standard hardware. Using the Vertica Analytic Database gives more people the freedom to analyze more data in more ways, faster, so they can out-innovate the competition. Vertica also offers the most flexible and easiest deployment options: as software-only to run on hardware of the customer's choice; pre-packaged with hardware as an analytic appliance; or on a pay-as-you-go basis hosted on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

"With venture capital flowing again, it's exciting to see technology innovators and business investors collaborate to create disruptive technologies," said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. "The Red Herring 100 North America companies are impressive up-and-comers, and definitely the ones to watch."

Red Herring's annual lists of top private companies are an important part of the company's tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, Salesforce.com and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.

Red Herring's editorial staff rigorously evaluated more than 800 private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

"Due to regulatory and competitive pressure, businesses today must enable many more people to analyze vastly larger volumes of information, often in real time. The breakthrough performance of the Vertica Analytic Database enables our customers to do this and drastically increase the speed and agility of strategic decision-making and execution," said Vertica CEO Ralph Breslauer. "Winning the Red Herring 100 award is an affirmation that our database management solutions address a critical business need, now and in the future."

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About Vertica
Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware. Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed grid-based, column-oriented analytic database technology that lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica Analytic Database's unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast, Level 3 Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in real time. Vertica is headquartered in Andover, Mass. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.vertica.com.